Notice the ripples . . . (DW#461)
Have you ever witnessed a fight or aggression between two or more people? And if you have, did you notice how the tension between those who were involved in the conflict appeared to spread to everyone around even if they were in no way involved?
This is what we mean when we say that there is "tension in the air". Like the ripples created when you throw a stone in a pond, our emotions, and the behaviours resulting from those emotions appear to spread to everyone who witnessed the emotion in action.
And it doesn’t stop at the witnesses either.
When people see others engaged in conflict, they disperse and take with them a feeling of anxiety and stress. They may in turn act out those feelings on others and so on it goes. . .
So notice yourself catching a bad mood from others when it happens the next time.
When we become mindful of our emotional unleashing on others, we are much more motivated to take action to begin to change things.
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